Addendum: 3 things we think our PC can do, but it can't

I'll add my part on what Brian said on the previous post.

First off, he's right about computers not been able to think for you, they're handle mathematical operations and are waiting for an input which in turn will transform into an operation the computer can handle to give you the result that, most of the time, you're expecting.

He's also right about cleaning up, most people will never clean their computer and it turns them into a nasty infection hold that could not only affect your computer but also your health. Clean it once in a while and also remember the clean software that you don't use in your computer, defrag it every once in a while and if you feel that ain't cutting it then back everything up and go for a format, which I've always said has to be done approximately every year but I'll speak more about it on another post.

Here's the most important part to me and I'll quote Brian on it "an average user won't need more than 720GB and 4GB RAM on their PC."

This is exactly what I've always told people and that's why I went for Linux. Let us go hyphotetical here for a minute or two.

You got this old junker stored, let us say we're talking about that old PC I've talking about recently, and you suddenly get this crazy idea to get a new computer because this one won't cut it anymore with XP, Vista or 7. Question here is, do you really need a new computer?

What are you doing with it?

The average PC user will only go into his computer to check his e-mail, read the news, check pictures of cats or maybe their grandchildren as cats, make some documents, check Wikipedia or Google for some info you'll need for a work, etc.

These are pretty basic functions and you don't really need the latest and greatest for this task, you don't need a Lenovo W500 for this or the latest Apple product, your old one, if it's not broken, will just work fine people so do yourself a favor and save the planet, save some money on your pocket, because on this time and age we all need it, and you won't need to pay additional money for licenses and whatnot, OK I know most of the planet pirates their stuff but come on people give it a chance.

So in brief, save the planet and save some money to your pocket. Key words. Get that old PC or laptop out of the closet and get it working again, it won't be the latest or greatest, probably won't be pretty, but yet again you're doing a favor to the planet in which you live. It's not that hard to get Linux to work on a computer nowadays and Ubuntu is really friendly on it but I'd recommend going for Xubuntu if you know your PC has been in a cave for the last 10 to 15 years.